Kristin Cavallari’s kids resort to honesty when asked about her new reality show
Kristin Cavallari is bringing her kids into the spotlight.
The 38-year-old “Laguna Beach” alum shares three children — sons Camden Jack, 12, and Jaxon Wyatt, 11, and daughter Saylor James, 9 — with her ex-husband, former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler.
On June 3, the trio made their official debut as guests on Cavallari’s “Let’s Be Honest” podcast.
The family talked about everything from breaking rules at school to making money through their “booming businesses,” which includes window-washing for Camden and cleaning trash bins for Jaxon.
They also talked about their first experience filming a reality TV show.
The three kids will be featured on Cavallari’s newest reality series, “Honestly Cavallari: The Headline Tour,” which premieres June 4 on E! and will be available to stream on Peacock.
When asked about the filming process, Cavallari’s three kids alluded to honesty.
“Some of it was boring and then some of it was fun,” Saylor quipped, adding that she wasn’t too fond of sitting around and talking with cameras around.
Her comment was met with jokes from her two brothers.
“It’s not like we talk like a family ever,” Camden joked. “Remember whenever we ate dinner and we had to talk to each other? Instead of just sitting there in silence…”
As for their favorite part of filming, it appears the three kids enjoyed having a microphone on them.
“Them putting the mic on you. And then you’d be like, ‘Check check,’ and then they’d look at you,” Camden replied, mimicking the sound crew giving him a thumbs up.
Despite the mixed review, the trio admitted that filming lived up to their expectations.
“I just thought they’d come, put some cameras up, put some mics and then we’d just talk and film,” Camden said of what he expected.
Cavallari went on to describe it as a “fun and easy experience” for everyone.
“Out of all the TV shows that I’ve done, it was the easiest in the sense where they sort of let us be ourselves instead of telling us what to say,” she said, adding that the show was primarily unscripted.
She also praised her kids for not being nervous and being their “normal, bubbly, fun selves.”
Welcoming her three kids to the spotlight is something Cavallari avoided for much of their childhood.
Now that they’re getting older, Cavallari says she’s more open now than ever before about featuring them on social media, her podcast and, soon, her reality show.
“It is nice for me to be able to show that with people because my kids are the biggest part of my life. They always have been since I became a mom,” Cavallari said in an interview with People, published June 1.
“And I could only let people in so much without showing my kids, so to be able to now share that world with everybody?” she added. “People [can] see at the end of the day, I am just a normal mom.”
Despite the hesitation, Cavallari says her decision to feature her kids was a long time coming.
In fact, her three kids have been asking her to post about them “for years.”
“I guess it was maybe a year and a half ago that I finally posted Camden. He’s almost 13, Saylor is 9 — she’ll be 10 in the fall,” Cavallari told People.
“In my perfect world, would they all be 12 [before] deciding if they were posted? Sure. But also, it’s just not realistic,” she added.
Nonetheless, Cavallari says she’s enjoying her life as a “normal mom.”
“I’m going to basketball practice and games like every other parent. I’m at school. I was on a field trip last Friday. I am doing all the normal mom things,” she told the outlet.
“And I think it’s probably good for people to see because I think people’s idea of me is very different than who I actually am,” she explained.
